Isolation and Enlargement

This photo of a client’s great-grandfather was from a 1930’s military group photo. The picture was rolled tightly and covered with cracks; we scanned it, repaired the image, isolated the subject, and put him against a proper flag, to make a nice 8×10 for the family.

Here’s another ‘isolation’ exercise: I posed to match the Civil War general, isolated my head, and parked it over the original. A bit of texture and color work and I find myself suddenly an officer: